Anti-free speech laws and policies will inevitably be used against those who implement them when new regimes come into power. The free press is a rare gift that the left and right can agree on and must protect at all costs to prevent authoritarianism from rising on both sides.

Talking to controversial people should be encouraged, not attacked. Shutting down the conversation guarantees division, conflict and further polarization.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw